Charles Dickens Quotes

Charles Dickens

Biography

Type: Writer

Born: 7 February 1812, Landport, Hampshire, Englan

Died: 9 June 1870 (aged 58), Higham, Kent, Eng

Charles Dickens is much loved for his great contribution to classic English literature. He was the quintessential Victorian author. His epic stories, vivid characters and exhaustive depiction of contemporary life are unforgettable

Charles Dickens Quotes

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.. Charles Dickens
Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

What greater gift than the love of a cat.. Charles Dickens
What greater gift than the love of a cat.

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement
I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.. Charles Dickens
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night
Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.. Charles
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I
It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself..
An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

I must do something or I shall wear my heart away.... Charles Dickens
I must do something or I shall wear my heart away...

I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of
I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.

I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.. Charles
I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.

‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to
‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of
Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art."

(Last words, according to Dickens's obituary in The Times.)

Some conjurers say that number three is the magic number, and some say number seven. It's
Some conjurers say that number three is the magic number, and some say number seven. It's neither my friend, neither. It's number one. (Fagin)

Never say never. Charles Dickens
Never say never

Cada fracaso enseña algo que se necesitaba aprender.. Charles Dickens
Cada fracaso enseña algo que se necesitaba aprender.

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.. Charles
There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.

The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.. Charles Dickens
The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in
Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.

The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone. Eye to eye, voice to voice, hand to hand, heart to heart, these two children of the Universal Mother, else so wide apart and differing, have come together on the dark highway, to repair home together and to rest in her bosom.

In a word, it was impossible for me to separate her, in the past or in the present, from the innermost life of my life.

[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.

The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established custom of gentlemen in the housebreaking way to transact business at noon, and to make an appointment, by the twopenny post, a day or two previous.

She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea.

There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination to pitch Mr. Thomas Gradgrind Junior.

I only hope, for the sake of the rising male sex generally, that you may be found in as vulnerable and soft-hearted a mood by the first eligible young fellow who appeals to your compassion.

Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.

She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.

Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them.

Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Mrs. Joe war eine sehr reinliche Hausfrau, doch sie verstand sich ausnehmend gut darauf, ihre Reinlichkeit bequemer und unerträglicher zu machen, als jeder Schmutz gewesen wäre. Die Reinlichkeit ist der Gottesfurcht verwandt, und manche verfahren mit ihrer Religion ganz genauso.

It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

*I love climbing mountains in all fields (Whatever was this fields).
*I love tranquility and it is more for me precious than money.
*Honesty is a few valuable nowadays.
after willing of God and Step by step with Concentration i will achieve What I want to.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show

So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

Master Bates sauntering along with his hands in his pockets...

I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.

A new heart for a New Year, always!

Those darling byegone times, Mr Carker,' said Cleopatra, 'with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of torture, and their romantic vengeances, and their picturesque assaults and sieges, and everything that makes life truly charming! How dreadfully we have degenerated!

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

There are only two styles of portrait painting: the serious and the smirk.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

It was considered at the time a striking proof of virtue in the young king that he was sorry for his father's death;but, as common subjects have that virtue too, sometimes, we will say no more about it.

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable-indescribable-my misery amazing.

When I have come to you, at last (as I have always done), I have come to
peace and happiness. I come home, now, like a tired traveller, and find
such a blessed sense of rest!

We went our several ways," said Lady Dedlock, "and had little in common even before we agreed to differ. It is to be regretted, I suppose, but it could not be helped.

There was once a king, and he had a queen; and he was the manliest of his gender, and she was the loveliest of hers. They had nineteen children, and were always having more.

A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.

There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect

and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.

It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when the Great Creator was a child himself.

The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.

Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues - faith and hope.

The mother who lay in the grave, was the mother of my infancy; the little creature in her arms, was myself, as I had once been, hushed for ever on her bosom.

Any capitalist . . . who had made sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, always professed to wonder why the sixty thousand nearest Hands didn't each make sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, and more or less reproached them every one for not accomplishing the little feat. What I did you can do. Why don't you go and do it?

[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay.

Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.

[...] There are tales among us that you have sold yourself to the devil, and I know not what.'

'We all have, have we not?' returned the stranger, looking up. 'If we were fewer in number, perhaps he would give better wages.

You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer,” said Miss Pross, in her breathing. “Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

To have all those noble Romans alive before me, and walking in and out for my entertainment, instead of being the stern taskmasters they had been at school, was a most novel and delightful effect.

It is the custom on the stage in all good, murderous melodramas, to present the tragic and the comic scenes in as regular alternation as the layers of red and white in a side of streaky, well-cured bacon.

Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.

Very strange things comes to our knowledge in families, miss; bless your heart, what you would think to be phenomenons, quite ... Aye, and even in gen-teel families, in high families, in great families ... and you have no idea ... what games goes on!

My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.

. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker . . .

[...] certain it is that minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort, and like them, are often successfully cured by remedies in themselves very nauseous and unpalatable.

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